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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (500983)	11/30/2003 2:37:33 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (2) of 769670

Raymond, I'm totally with you on wishing that our country would not have entered Iraq in the manner that Bush has wrought. It was a huge policy mistake. But do you think we should cut and run now? What do you think the result would be if the Americans left tomorrow? We would be walking out on country with a gaping wound. The country would fall into a civil war which would likely mean even more dead bodies. We cannot undo what has been done. It saddens me so. The lessons that we learned in Vietnam are manifold. The lessons of the Gulf War are manifold. But this administration has ignored these lessons. One of the lessons we learned in Vietnam was that we were chronically underdeployed for the entire war. This causes undue loss of life. The strategy was flawed from the beginning. As we know that you cannot fight a guerilla war and at the same time try not upset the Soviets and the Chinese. We did not deploy overwhelming force with a prescribed mission and a prescribed exit strategy. All we tried to do was to keep the "enemy" at bay and out of Saigon. This was attempted with limited military force. We'd capture a hill one day, and then let the VC take it back the next. Tragically entering Vietnam was the first mistake. Then we compounded the error by not having a realistic plan of action. We have the same problem developing in Iraq today. Rumsfeld wants to try to win this war with a small force which can be quickly deployed around the country as needed. this is about the same thing we did in Vietnam. And getting into this war without the full support of the UN and NATO is one of the lessons of the Gulf War which we did not heed. Our problem in Iraq is one of security. We could have done a much better job of providing that security if we had a large multinational force there, including Arab countries. but when you have ordinance literally laying around the country, and when you don't have enough people to police and keep an eye on what's happening with the weapons that's a recipie for disaster. When you cannot secure the borders, that's a recipie for disaster. At this point in time if we were to pull out, the vacuum would suck UBL and Al Qaeda right into the void. We don't have any other option now, except to try to work with NATO and the UN in expanding the troops, or increacing the deployment of US troops to do the basic security work. Something is wrong when a donkey cart hauls a missile to the center of town where it can be deployed against military and civilian targets. I'm angry at the way this war was started. It was wrong headedness from the gitgo. But pulling out today and leaving behind that mess would be wrong too. Orca

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